Role of the ocean in controlling atmospheric CO2 concentration in the course of global glaciations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1755-1770

  Oka, Akira ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^a   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^a   Kubota, Keiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate model; Global glaciation; Ocean carbon cycle

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SOLUBILITY; STRATIFICATION; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 80355132547     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0959-z     Document Type: Article

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